Judge allows Trump to implement mail-in voting executive order

A U.S. judge declined to block President Donald Trump's executive tightening rules on mail-in voting in a loss for the Democratic Party, whose lawyers argued that it could disenfranchise millions of voters.

The decision May 28 comes as Trump's Republicans are locked in a tight battle keep control of both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections. Trump has four years pushed the claim that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voter fraud and has criticized voting by mail.

The executive order signed by Trump on March 31 directed his administration to compile a list of confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state and to use federal data to help state election officials verify who is eligible to vote.